Agenda - Council Work Session - 09/11/2012

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Raw Data Explanatory Notes CPM 101 Annual Report: FY2011 Highways & Road Maintenance /57 If your local government participates in CPM 101, you may access the raw data for this report on the CPM 101 Knowledge Network group located here. For assistance on accessing the group or locating the file, please send an e-mail to CPM (cpmmail@ icma.org). (Non - participants do not receive access to the raw data.) Figure 5 - 2 • A number of jurisdictions note that the actual expenditures they report differ greatly from year to year owing to events such as an increase in capital funds, the delay of a major capital contract, or other changes in the availability of funds. • Some differences in road rehabilitation expenditures may be attributable to external factors such as weather conditions, natural disasters, and legislative mandates. Differences may also result from internal factors such as deferred maintenance policies. Figure 5 - 4 • Some jurisdictions assess a percentage of their roadways each year while others assess only those that are in need of replacement or repair. As a result, the paved lane miles that a jurisdiction elects to assess may not be a representative sample of its total paved lane miles. • Even though participants are required to submit road condition information collected from standardized assessment systems like PAVER, such trained observer ratings remain somewhat subjective. Additionally, jurisdictions set different minimum scores as "satisfactory." Figure 5 - 5 • Citizen ratings of road condition may be artificially high or low, because of citizens' perceptions of the condition of roadways within the jurisdiction that are maintained by agencies other than the local government conducting the survey. A jurisdiction may have a high proportion of federally maintained or state - maintained roadways within its boundaries, and these roadways may be maintained to a different standard than the locally maintained roadways. Because residents are likely to be unaware of which government maintains each segment of roadway, they may judge the quality of road maintenance performed by their local government on the basis of the condition of roadways maintained by other jurisdictions. Alternatively, citizens who commute through a number of communities may rate the condition of locally maintained roadways on the basis of their entire route, without regard for jurisdictional boundaries. OICMA Center for Performance Measurement'"